1. True.2. True.3. Hm. Just read something about this statistic but I think it was more Moslems than Catholics, so I'll say False. Like the idols you worship.4. True, I think.5. True? Especially because many people are both, depending on the occasion.6. False, but mostly because I disapprove of this Pope.7. Shoot. Which one is McCain always mixing up ... I think False, and it's the Shi'ia that have the larger numbers.8. Yes! One of the world's more sensible religions, in my opinion.9. True. And they are rapidly being overtaken by the Pastafarians. May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage soon.10. True, probably. Does Judaism demand one jumps on a couch, too?11. False?12. False, I think, but only because you included the "religious diversity" part. I can attest to the "no religious affiliation" part though.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here in search of the elusive exclamation point!

1. yes, (i'm considering all the muslims in india and indonesia)2. sure3. yes, (see #1)4. i don't know. um...no. (China)5. no6. no7. yes8. yes9. yes10.sure11.no, (remember that map you showed us a little while back where the entire southern states were baptist?)12.yes, i'd like to think so

1 no. That just seems too many. 2 no. That seems too many too, if I'm right about #1. If I'm wrong about #1, I'm probably 0 for 2 at this point. 3 no4 no5 no6 yes 7 yes 8 yes 9 yes 10 no I hope not11 no having been in the South, I have the impression the Baptists are winning12 yes Amen!

1. True2. False (MUCH smaller than this)3. False4. False5. False (most Shintoists also practice some Buddhism on the side, plus all those other Buddhists out there.)6. Yes (Thanks to Latin America)7. Yes (by about 8 times)8. Yes9. No, I think there's a bunch more than that, even once you take all those out who are only in it for the pot.10. Hmmmm.. . . I'll say False here, though it's just so weird it might be true. But my official answer is False.11. False - Baptists much bigger12. True. Godless heathens, all of you.

Right, then. Let's talk answers. And in so doing, let's keep in mind that statistics about religious adherence are way problematic; but, you'll notice that I avoided ambiguities in the questions. I used very standard, vanilla sources.

1. True; about 53.5% of the world's population professes an Abrahamic faith.

2. False. I worded this in a somewhat tricksy but basically fair way; but nowhere near 7% of the world's population practices Judaism. It's closer to 1/4 of 1%.

3. False; Christians outnumber Moslems about 4 to 3.

4. True; there are more than twice as many Hindus as Buddhists. If there can even be said to be such a thing as "Hinduism," or for that matter "Buddhism." Don't get me started. But anyway, India's a big country.

5. False; Shinto is pretty tiny, with maybe 1/15 of Buddhism's head count.

6. True. Catholicism trumps Orthodoxy by more than 4 to 1.

7. True. Sunnis outnumber Shi'ites by around 7 or 8 to 1.

8. True. There are only one or two hundred thousand Zoroastrians around, but it is interestingly among the fastest-growing religions in the world.

9. False. There's more than half a million practicing Rastafarians.

10. No Way. You've got, at a very rough estimate, 15 million people practicing Judaism. Even the Scientologists themselves only claim 8 million practitioners; a very generous but responsible estimate is that there are maybe around 500,000 Scientologists.

11. False; Baptists are 5 or 6 times as numerous in the U.S. as are the other three.

drschnell went 11 for 12 to take home this week's Gold Star; it's his second, his 9th Gold overall.

Christie Mannix also had 11/12, a few hours later, and she claims the Silver Star. It's her first award in Thursday Quiz play, and possibly in L&TM5K action overall, unless she is the same person as "cpm," who has a couple Exclamation Points. Please clarify. Incidently, she appears to have a new blog with awesome folk art imagery.

Karmasartre beat Cartophiliac to the punch, so they have the Blue and Green Stars respectively for their 10/12 scores. For each of them it is their second of that color and their fifth overall, which makes a five-way scrum for 8th place on the all-times Stars list.

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